GSA - Graffiti and Street Art

The notion of territory has long exceeded its strictly geographic definition. In contemporary urban and cultural research, territory is increasingly understood as a layered construct—simultaneously material and symbolic, regulated and contested, lived and represented. The 2025 edition of Urban Creativity, whose overarching theme was Territory, foregrounded this expanded understanding by bringing together researchers and practitioners concerned with how boundaries are produced, negotiated, and dissolved across urban, cultural, and artistic practices.

This issue of GSA – Graffiti and Street Art Journal, titled Territory in Flux: Mediation, and Hybrid Practices, emerges directly from that context. It reflects the dialogical spirit that has characterized Urban Creativity since its inception twelve years ago: a shared platform where disciplinary territories are deliberately crossed, and where academic research remains in close conversation with practice-based knowledge, informal cultural production, and critical urban experience.